Agam (from the series Bertha Alyce: Mother exPosed)

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Agam (from the series Bertha Alyce: Mother exPosed)

Artist Gay Block (American, born 1942)

Printer Wendy Young (American, born 1963)

Date1997-2001 (printed 2015)

Mediumpigment prints

DimensionsImage (b): 21 15/16 × 17 1/2 in. (55.7 × 44.5 cm)
Support (b): 23 1/16 × 20 1/8 in. (58.6 × 51.1 cm)
Mat (b): 28 × 22 1/8 in. (71.1 × 56.2 cm)
Image (a): 21 15/16 × 17 in. (55.7 × 43.2 cm)
Support (a): 24 × 20 1/8 in. (61 × 51.1 cm)
Mat (a): 28 1/8 × 22 1/16 in. (71.4 × 56 cm)

ClassificationsPhotograph

Credit LineGift of Gay Block, 2015

Object number2015.19.2ab

DescriptionThe piece consists of two framed panels. The panel at left is text on a red background. The panel at right shows a head and shoulders view of a woman facing the camera wearing a gold geometric necklace and leaning on the back of a chair covered with a fur coat.
eMuseum Notes

Emuseum Notes

This self-portrait is from Block’s series Bertha Alyce: Mother exPosed, in which she uses the camera to explore her difficult relationship with her mother. She photographs herself wearing a necklace designed by the artist Agam, which her mother wore to one of Block’s exhibition receptions. The text tells the story of that night and finds the artist coming to a new interpretation of what the necklace meant to her mother, marking a turning point in her understanding of their lifetime of disconnection.

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